A number of readers took issue with my comments in our Winnipeg discussion that I didn't think the city's corporate base was much bigger than it was 15 years ago or that the city was much wealthier.

Brent Bellamy is part of that corporate base. He argues Winnipeg may not be a Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver but it "is a far wealthier place than it was in the mid-1990s." To bolster his argument, Mr. Bellamy sends along an interesting set of numbers: